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A. BAYLEY. TEA AND COFFEE POT HANDLE.

Patented July 5, 1881, I

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N. PETERS Photo-Lining "UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED BAYLEY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

TEA AND COFFEE POT HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,832, dated July 5,1881.

Application filed May 2, 1881.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALFRED BAYLEY, of Newark,in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented anew anduseful Improvement in Tea and Oofl'ee Pot Handles, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to tea and coffee pot handles made to protect thehand from heat, or to'suohconstruction of them that the parts coming incontact with the hand will not become heated; and it consists in thepeculiar construction of the handles, madein part of wood or othernon-conducting material.

Figure 1 is a section. Figs. 2 and 3 are detailed views.

The general form of my handle is shown in Fig. 1, although the formadmits of variation.

The part A grasped by the hand is made of wood, either turned or cut outstraight with the grain, which makes this piece strong and not liable tobe broken if the tea-pot should get a fall; and, being of wood, it willnot become too hot to handle. The upper section, B,ot the handle is alsomade of wood lengthwise the grain, and as it will not get hot it shieldsthe upper part of the hand coming against it. The lower section, 0, alsomay be made of wood; but usually it will not be necessary, as the handis inclined to move upward, and will rarely touch this section.

D D are recessed caps or shields, having in them the holes H, andadapted by soldering to connect the handle with the side E of ateapot. V

In constructing my handle a mold is made from the pattern of the handle,as shown in Fig. 1, or of such other form as is desirable. In this moldis laid the section A, having through it the holes F, beveled on theoutside. Section B is also laid in, having the hole G (No model.)

lengthwise through it and corresponding with the hole F. TheshieldsD'are also laid in the mold edgewise. The mold is then closed andturned so that the shields are up, when some suitable molten metal ispoured in through the holes H in the shields, which forms the sections 0and I and fills up the recesses in the shields, and also the holes F andG, which filling, by means of the bevel in the hole F in section A,unites and holds the parts perfectly together; or, instead of the pouredmetal going through the section'A, screws may be put through thissection from the outside and extend beyond it into the hole in sectionB, and also in section 0. When the metal is poured as above named itwillclose in about the screwthreads and bind the parts firmly; or a metalpin may be put .in with the head, filling the beveled holes F, and mayhave openings transversely through the ends, taking the place of thescrew-threads, and the molten metal, closing around the pins and intothe openings, will hold all in place.

I claim- 1. A tea and cofl'ee pot handle having the sections A and B ofnon-conducting material, and having a metal connection with each otherand with the tea-pot, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The sections A and B and the shields 1), having a connection by meansof cast metal, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of the non-conducting sections A and B and the metalsections 0 and I, making connection with the sections A and shields D,substantially as set forth.

ALFRED BAYLE Y.

Witnesses:

HORACE HARRIS, SAMUELG. DAVIS.

